It was of all things a database book that advised me to begin with the user interface. It's counterintuitive because, isn't the database the foundation of the i

It was of all things a database book that advised me to begin with the user interface. It's counterintuitive because, isn't the database the foundation of the interface? Don't get me wrong. I don't roll an application into production until I've gone back and forth over both the interface and the database, until both satisfy me, the database is well-normalized, and so on. But when the first line of anything has yet to be written, I think I save a few iterations by first sketching out the fields and behavior of the user interface.